Dexter Lehtinen

Dexter Wayne Lehtinen (23 March 1946-) was a member of the Florida House of Representatives from 1981 to 1987, a member of the Florida Senate from 1987 to 1988, and the US District Attorney for the Southern District of Florida from 1988 to 1992.

Biography
Dexter Wayne Lehtinen was born in Homestead, Florida in 1946, and he served as President of the Florida Federation of College Young Republicans before serving in the US Army during the Vietnam War (during which he was severely wounded in the face in 1971). In 1980, he was elected to the State House of Representatives as a Democratic Party member, but he defected to the Republican Party in 1985 and married future Republican congresswoman Ileana Ros a few months later. In 1986, he was elected to the State Senate, and Attorney General Edwin Meese appointed him as a District Attorney in 1988. In 1992, he resigned due to misconduct and for launching an investigation against one of his wife's political rivals, and he served as general counsel for the Miccosukee Native American tribe until 2010 and as a professor at Florida universities.